Intolerable Acts

The American Revolution is the most significant event in American history, starting from 1765 with the introduction of the Stamp Act until America was officially recognized in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This event significance is the reason why it is mentioned in numerous books, articles, movies, and various other means of media and popular culture. But what we fail to recognize is that popular culture and the media portray events in a specific way, often emitting and emphasizing on certain…

The Boston Tea Party took place December 16, 1773. The reason it took place was because of a phrase: “No taxation without representation”. The phrase meant everyone paid the same tax and no one could influence the king’s decision. No one wanted to pay that amount of tax so they wanted to conspire a plan resulting in the Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was the most well planned rebellion of the 18th and 19th century. A group of Patriots, known as the Sons of Liberty and led by a man named…

At that time, the American colonies the struggling due to the arbitrariness of the British colonial power, like that of the rest of the colonies stretching in all continents of the world. One day that year colonizers decided to raise taxes on the product (tea) who brings the other colony to Colonial America, and this decision was the beginning of a popular boycott of the products followed by «revolution» violent led by activist Samuel Adams and a group of rebels who attacked three ships laden…

Many revolts and acts of rebellion took place during the 1700’s. One of these acts was the Boston Tea Party. This occurred on December 16th, 1773 and consisted of over a hundred Sons of Liberty, dressed as Native Americans, who dumped 342 chests (92,000lbs) worth of tea into the Boston harbor. This resulted in Parliament’s passing of the five Intolerable Acts. These Intolerable Acts were unjustified because there were much better and more fair ways to have dealt with the Boston Tea Party at the…

war fueled by many events and acts occurring between the years of 1763 and 1775. Within these years English colonists were aggravated from the tax and trade laws that were put into place. The series of major conflicts between England and English colonies consist of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts and everything in between. The English colonists were upset with the way they were being treated along with all of the taxes that came along with acts passed by the British…

political freedom, taxes of England would be repealed, and the colonies would be able to separate and make a new society. King George III took away many of the political freedom that the colonists were used to. For example, he passed the Quartering act which demanded that british troops be housed in the colonies. This caused the colonists to protest angrily. Also, King George III once said, “ A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.” This meant that the colonists could not have their…

Parliament declared the colonies guilty and found that there were responsible for the war debt. ‘Parliament enacted a series of tax measures over the next ten years that sparked outrage throughout the colonies(Sheidley).’The several acts passed by the Parliament such as, the tea act infuriated the colonies and finally retaliated, which is known as the Boston Tea Party. The unjust and irrational decisions made by King George III led to the corruption of government and later evolved into the…

on tea, that is, taxation without representation and the perceived East India Company’s monopoly. The Townshend Acts passed in 1767 by Parliament imposed duties on various imported products but they raised a big storm of non-compliance and colonial protest. The Boston merchants evaded the act by continuing to import tea illegally brought in by Dutch traders. Parliament passed a Tea Act in 1773 aimed to help the financially challenged East India Company. The tea that was supposed to be shipped…

viewed this act as another illustration of taxation tyranny. On December 16th of 1773, a group of colonist in Massachusetts disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, gathered in Boston Harbor on three different British tea ships and discarded 342 chests of tea over the ships and into the Harbor (“Boston Tea Party,” 2007). This later was known as, “The Boston Tea Party.” This act by American colonist functioned as a protest against the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act of 1773 was…

a result of the tension created by different documents that taxed the colonists such as the sugar, stamp, Townsend duties tea and intolerable acts that served for the British’s main concern; money. As numerous attempts were made by British to also get the colonists to pay taxes, the colonists became furious as acts continued to be repealed and replaced by harsher acts. While the two sides continued to have differences of what was considered “fair”, the inability to settle these issues would…